Roberto Villa
Actor · 1915 – 2002 · Casablanca, Morocco
Movies24
MovieComedyHistoryLa sonnambula
1941
Movie6.3ComedyAfter several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
Totò all'inferno
1955 · 25 votes
- MovieComedy
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceA young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.
- MovieDrama
Un mese d'onestà
1948
Movie7.0ComedyAmbrogio Carugati, a perpetually failing graduate student, turns to a former university classmate, the gynecologist Roberto Setti, to escape the arranged marriage with Gabriella, a girl he doesn't like.
Il medico delle donne
1962 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyL'elisir d'amore
1941 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceDramaA young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a man who invites her out for a drink. She accepts the invitation, stunned by the bunch of banknotes in his wallet. The man takes her to his room at the hotel Luna and seduces her. Before leaving, she robs him of his money and then walks hastily home, but in the meantime her mother has died. She meets a young maestro, who wants her to sing his songs. She seems to begin a happy, though hard, life together with the young maestro who wishes to marry her. The wicked man suddenly reappears and menaces to reveal their old encounter and that she is a thief, but he is later killed. The unfortunate lady is suspected of the crime, but at the end she is cleared of it and she can happily marry her maestro
Albergo Luna, camera 34
1946 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
- Movie9.0ComedyRomance
Movie9.0DramaLa gerla di papà Martin
1940 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaWarAn Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.
Il grande appello
1936 · 1 votes
Movie10.0HistoryDramaDuring the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
La fanciulla di Portici
1940 · 1 votes
Movie5.2WarDramaSuccessful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agent for a flight from Rio to Rome, but his plane crashes in the Atlantic. For the world Luciano Serra is missing, but he has entered the Italian army under a new name to fight in Ethiopia. The train in which his unit travels is attacked by Ethiopian soldiers, his son flying a reconasaince mission is shot down and wounded by the same attacking enemies. Will Luciano be able to fly the plane back, to get close air support for the outnumbered Italian troups?
Movie8.0FamilyCinderella manages to marry the prince and move to the palace, where she is well-liked and loved by everyone. However, her evil stepsisters devise a way to get her kicked out.
Movie7.0ComedyIn Amalfi, a young man loves a girl who prefers the organizer of a beauty contest. The rejected lover finds an unexpected ally in the girl's aunt, an elderly dramatic actress who lives in the memory of a suitor who she believes committed suicide for her (instead, he survived and is present in the same tourist resort).
Ma chi te lo fa fare?
1948 · 1 votes
Movie5.6DramaLilia Silvi stars as Carina, an orphaned little seamstress, who is in the habit of sneaking out of her window at night, and go to the theater. Once back in her small chamber, she will act out all the parts of the play she has just witnessed. Her longing is to be on the stage, and then she meets Oliva and Mirella, two sisters who share her ambition to enter the world of dance and drama. The three girls become inseparable friends, and we follow them in their aspirations to make it to the stage.
Violette nei capelli
1942 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedySe quell'idiota ci pensasse...
1939 · 1 votes
Movie4.7ComedyRomanceIn Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
I mariti
1941 · 6 votes
Movie3.0RomanceThe merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.
Movie8.0ComedyA daughter discovers her parents are far from being the rich bourgeois she thought they were.
Giorno di nozze
1942 · 2 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
Porte chiuse
1945 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA wealthy widow becomes infatuated with an adventurer posing as a poet and, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and her no longer young age, falls prey to a love frenzy in her family that puts her at odds with her daughter, who has just left boarding school, and her own brother, who is all about scientific research. The girl, who has learned of the alleged poet's less-than-honest intentions, tries every means to drive him away and restore her mother's sentimental balance. For this she pretends to be in love with him who, attracted by her youth and rich dowry, proposes that she elope.
Divieto di sosta
1941 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaIl fornaretto di Venezia
1939 · 2 votes